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5 Conversation Design Tips for Customer Acquisition Chatbots
February 14, 2019
When designing a chatbot for customer acquisition, use these five tips to ensure that you’re keeping the user at the forefront of your mind.
Bots for Business
What Are Chatbot Slots, and How Do You Define Them for Your Bot?
February 12, 2019
Chatbot slots, also known as entities, are variables you give your program to let your bot categorize and interpret users’ input. Read on to learn more!
Bot Development
How to Write a Successful Script for Your Bot
February 5, 2019
Read our advice on how to create a creative and conversational script for your bot.
Bot Development
Moving Beyond One Platform
February 5, 2019
Platforms like Messenger have been a preferred playground for developers and brands cutting their teeth on bot building. Now, savvy bot makers are extending their conversational AI strategies beyond the status quo.
Bot Development
Generate Real Estate Leads with Chatbots
January 29, 2019
There are several different bots being used by real estate companies. Learn about the benefits of creating your own bot for real estate.
Bots for Business
How to Get Your Bot Discovered
January 22, 2019
Bots have conquered the internet and are now responsible for 52 percent of all web traffic. Where are chatbots being used, and how can you get yours discovered?
Bot Development
Coding Your Bot: Do You Need to Learn Python?
January 15, 2019
Python is an ideal language for programming chatbots because it has functions that other coding languages don’t. We discuss the benefits of Python in this article.
Bot Development
How to Write Engaging Dialogue for Your Chatbot
January 8, 2019
Effective chatbots communicate with natural, convincing dialogue. Learn some great steps for writing a chatbot dialogue that enables your bot to help users.
Bot Development
Improving Your Chatbot Performance Through A/B Testing
January 1, 2019
You can use A/B testing to make informed decisions that affect your overall chatbot performance. Learn more about A/B testing tools and insights for your bot.
Bot Development
What Is the Future of Bots?
December 26, 2018
Bots are powerful tools that can help companies develop marketing research and enhance user engagement. In this article, we take a look at the future of bots.
Chatbot News
Hiring a Bot Developer? These Top Interview Questions Can Help!
December 18, 2018
Want to make sure your bot developer really knows their stuff? We’ve put together a list of interview questions to help you hire the right bot developer.
Bots for Business
Multilingual Chatbots: Teaching Your Bot New Languages
December 11, 2018
Chatbots that can communicate in multiple languages can help you reach more users. Before you get started, read up on these linguistic and cultural challenges.
Bot Development
Why Good Writing is Central to Conversational AI
December 6, 2018
What role does good writing play in the day-to-day business of bot building? And what is “good writing” anyway? In this article, we explore some of the ways good writing plays a crucial role in your conversational AI strategy.
Bot Development
Speech Recognition: Teaching Your Bot to Speak
December 4, 2018
Voice chatbots can recognize human speech and are a preferred way for consumers to interact with brands. Learn the basics of building a voice chatbot.
Bot Development
Shopping Cart Abandonment? Chatbots to the Rescue!
November 27, 2018
More and more companies are using chatbots to solve e-commerce problems. Explore some common shopping cart abandonment problems, and see how bots can help.
Bots for Business
How to Design a Chatbot’s Personality
November 20, 2018
Follow our practical guide for designing a chatbot’s personality, and create a bot with a fully developed personality that your users will enjoy and trust.
Bot Basics, Bot Development
Building Your Bot: Coding from Scratch vs. Using a Bot Builder
November 13, 2018
There are two main ways to create a bot—hand coding from scratch or using a bot builder. Explore the pros and cons of these two options.
Bot Development, Frameworks and Tools
Listening to Your Bot: Chatbot Metrics and Analytics
November 6, 2018
Chatbots are powerful tools for improving your customers’ experience. So which are the best chatbot metrics for success, and what can you learn from your bot?
Bots for Business
4 Ways Chatbots Help Reduce Carbon Footprint of Your Business
October 30, 2018
Chatbots can do a lot to benefit your business. Explore four use cases for chatbots that can reduce energy consumption and help save you money.
Bots for Business
Get a .BOT Domain Faster with Pandorabots
October 23, 2018
Learn how new and existing Pandorabot users can get a .BOT domain.
Bot Development
How Chatbots Use Conversational Marketing
October 16, 2018
Chatbots are learning from billions of customer interactions to help companies and brands develop conversational marketing strategies.
Bots for Business, Conversational Marketing
Natural Language Processing: Common Challenges
October 9, 2018
Three common challenges with NLP are natural language understanding, information extraction, and natural language generation. Learn more about NLP for chatbots.
Bot Basics, Bot Development
Web Scraping with Bots: The Good and Bad
October 2, 2018
Web scraping uses bots to collect large amounts of data from websites. Web-scraping bots began as helpful tools, but they have also been misused in some ways.
Bots for Business, Chatbots
Human or Bot? Can You Tell the Difference?
September 25, 2018
Humans “talk” to bots online all the time, and AI can make it difficult to discern whether you’re dealing with a bot or a person. Can you tell the difference?
Chatbot News, Chatbots
How to Choose a Framework for Your Next Bot Build
September 11, 2018
It takes a lot of planning to create a bot. Before you even get started coding, check our list of things to consider when you choose a bot framework.
Bot Development, Frameworks and Tools
Bots Against Slavery
September 4, 2018
See how Seattle Against Slavery is fighting sex trafficking with chatbots that pose as sex trafficking victims and that interact directly with the buyers.
Emerging Technology
12 Bots to Integrate in Slack Today
August 28, 2018
Slack is one of the top platforms for bot integration to share everything from tasks to gifs with colleagues. Read about 12 Slackbots you can add today.
Bot Galleries
8 Lessons We Learned from the World’s Most Famous Bots
August 21, 2018
New bots are built on the success of famous bots ELIZA from 1966 and A.L.I.C.E. from 1995. Keep these 8 tips in mind to improve your bot development approach.
Emerging Technology
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